Bilby redux
For those who haven’t heard it yet, Bilby has been with us for almost a week now. She was born (depending on your definition of labour) after 6-8 hours of hard work (a bit less than Puggle), without gas, stitches or anything other than the bath, and mum and she are doing fine. Birth weight was 3.56kg, length 50cm. We were at the birthing centre for a little over 24 hours (waiting for the paed (sorry, for the KEMH demographic she introduced herself as the “baby doctor”) to come back try to find her femoral pulses again. The last paed we had used their stethoscope :). Feeding is progressing well after a bit of a reminder from the breastfeeding centre (the handy tip is that there’s a sucking reflex in hands and feet that you can try stimulating if you’re nursing 
Weight is being put on, and all fingers and toes are present, so we’re mightily happy once again.
Learning how to cope with interactions between Puggle and Bilby is probably the hardest part of the exercise. Puggle is very excited by her and has difficulty leaving her alone, giving her enough space, or coping with parental attention being diverted away.
As everyone asks, we’re still working on a name. More posts to come.
